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anabundanceoftubes · 11-22-2009, 02:05 PM

I just saw this movie last night on a recommendation.

It just went up there in favorites. It stars Guy Pearce, who, sure has been in a few mediocre movies, but on the whole I'd call a fairly talented actor, as an insurance investigator with short term memory loss. He's trying to solve his wife's murder, but every couple of hours he forgets everything that's happened to him since the accident that caused his memory condition. He has a very interesting system of reminding himself once this happens. And the movie is set up so that it starts at the end and works backwards in a series of clips, so you have to figure out the movie in that same sort of fragmented way that he has to figure out his life. It's just so goddamn good. I don't know why it didn't get more acclaim when it was released. Reminded me of the Usual Suspects in that everything is completely unpredictable.

11-22-2009, 02:05 PM	#4561 (permalink)
anabundanceoftubes Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Maggie's farm Posts: 56	I just saw this movie last night on a recommendation. It just went up there in favorites. It stars Guy Pearce, who, sure has been in a few mediocre movies, but on the whole I'd call a fairly talented actor, as an insurance investigator with short term memory loss. He's trying to solve his wife's murder, but every couple of hours he forgets everything that's happened to him since the accident that caused his memory condition. He has a very interesting system of reminding himself once this happens. And the movie is set up so that it starts at the end and works backwards in a series of clips, so you have to figure out the movie in that same sort of fragmented way that he has to figure out his life. It's just so goddamn good. I don't know why it didn't get more acclaim when it was released. Reminded me of the Usual Suspects in that everything is completely unpredictable.